Snowflake Christmas Cookies – Christmas Baking

Snowflake Christmas Cookies – Christmas Baking

These Snowflake Christmas Cookies are a fun Christmas project that is perfect for grown-ups and kids. The cookie is richly spiced with ginger, cinnamon, and molasses giving it a gingerbread cookie flavor, which is perfect for the season.

How to make Snowflake Christmas Cookies

Video – Snowflake Christmas Cookies

See the cookies above? How pretty are they? There are three there that I did for this video to show you how I made them. The rest are all made by the kids.

Snowflake Christmas Cookies Tutorial

Here’s what we did with our cookies – we hung them on the Christmas tree. This was probably the most exciting thing with both my kids, they love the Christmas tree!

And yet, I will be honest and tell you that I was not so comfortable putting them on the tree. I cleaned the tree really well with a wet wipe before. You know just to be food safe. And they were such a treat and so pretty!!

Useful Tips and Tools

I’m not a slave to mixers. And yet, when you need some good creaming I have to insist that you use the K-Mix or Kitchen Aid.

A good baking tray is always important. So, try using a light colored baking trayBaking tray. Another option is to line the baking tray with Parchment Paper.

If you aren’t going to fill or decorate these cookies a regular rolling pin will work just fine. And yet, a Cookie rolling pin has the side spacers that will also help you with rolling. So all your cookies are leveled and bake evenly.

Also, it is really important to cool cookies completely on all sides as soon as they come out of the oven. So take them off the baking tray to prevent them cooking further and place them on a Cooking rack so they air circulates on all sides. This prevents steam from going back into the cookie thus…… keeping them crispy not soggy.

Always bake cookies on the center rack of your Oven. And if you have more than one tray simply bake them one at a time. You can bake two trays at the same time, and yet this can lead to some of the cookies in the bottom tray spreading too much. Also, you can rotate the trays during the baking. This is helpful with some cookies.

Most cookies usually bake between 10 to 12 minutes. Since cookies bake quickly they can also get over-baked. This is due to our tendency to get distracted at the last minute. Hence, my solution is a kitchen timer that is always set to 10 minutes. I turn it on as soon as I place the cookies in the oven. This has saved me many cookies since my kids always keep me busy.

Ingredients

All-purpose flour – 300 grams

Butter – 113 grams (1 stick)

Light brown sugar – 100 grams (1/2 cup)

Granulated sugar – 50 grams (1/4 cup)

Molasses – 1/4 cup (light or dark)

Egg – 1 large

Salt – 1/4 tsp

Ground ginger – 1 1/2 tsp

Cinnamon powder – 1 tsp

Ground cloves – 1/2 tsp ground

Vanilla – 1 tsp

Method

Have all your ingredients ready.

Add the warm spices to the flour – cloves, cinnamon, ginger, salt.

Cream the butter and sugars until light and fluffy.

Add in the molasses and egg.

Next goes in the flour mix.

Form the dough. The dough will be sticky to handle.

Divide into two, wrap in plastic/cling wrap and chill for a couple of hours.

Once chilled the dough can be rolled and cut just as you do your sugar cookies.

Cut them with the snowflake cookie cutters and place on a baking tray.

Use another snowflake or round cutter two sizes smaller and remove the center out.

This is where you will add the crushed candy.

Fill the cavity with crushed candy keeping it well within the cavity.

I usually prefer to chill my cookies in the fridge for 15 minutes while the oven is preheating.

Bake in a preheated oven at 170 C/340 F for about 8 to 10 minutes.

When baked do not remove them from the cooker tray until they are cool. The melted sugar in the center is very hot so do not touch it.

When cool use a flat spatula to remove them from the pan.

Cool on a cooling rack completely before you transfer to a cookie jar.

A few tips when decorating these cookies

Use a cookie dough that can take a bit of handling. Kids take longer to work with these so a rich butter cookie might not work well with the kids. This gingerbread flavored cookie dough does well because when chilled it does really well.

If you notice the kid’s cookies above are a bit thicker with a smaller center cut out making the cookie border thicker. Unlike mine which is thinner with a larger center. It’s better this way for the kids to handle the cookie cut out and move them from the rolling mat to the cookie sheet

Place the whole cookie on the baking tray first before you use the smaller cookie cutter. That way you don’t distort the shape.

Make sure you crush the candy well before you fill the centers so it will melt evenly.

Chill the cookies before you bake them, I find they work better.

I usually bake most cookies for 10 minutes but for these, I baked them for 11 to 12 minutes – so they baked a bit on the firm side.

When the cookie is done. The centers will still be melted and bubbling. CAUTION!! Keep the kids away as the sugar center is really hot.

Do not try to move the cookies from the baking tray until they are completely cooled. This can cause the center to break off.

I waited for 10 minutes until I could move the spatula under each cookie. Then I moved it to the drying rack.

Attempted to add a ribbon thru the hole only when completely cooled.

As you can see in the video above, the process is really simple easy and quick too. Here are a few progress pictures of the kids and my cookies.

Snowflake Christmas Cookies

These Snowflake Christmas Cookies are a fun Christmas project that is perfect for grown-ups and kids. The cookie is richly spiced with ginger, cinnamon, and molasses giving it a gingerbread cookie flavor, which is perfect for the season.

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